マディソン絵日記/Madison Iwai Says: Thanksgiving Weekend/サンクスギビングの週末

So we must begin with a confession...maybe we can blame it on having our first place for the first time, or the stretch of cooler weather last week (mid-60s :-), but we caught the Holiday bug early this year...the weekend before Thanksgiving we (or should I say I) set-up our fake Christmas Tree in the living room, blasted the Holiday music thanks to the I Heart Radio App and Madison enjoyed decorating it.

今年私達は今まで一度もした事の無い事をしてしまいました...サンクスギビングの前にクリスマスの飾り付けを始めてしまいました！先週ちょっと寒くなったせいか、この家で初めて過ごすクリスマスのせいかサンクスギビングの前に週末に早速クリスマスツリー１本目をマディソンと飾り付けです。

And I enjoyed re-decorating, as Madison clustered all hers in one area...rookie mistake!!
そして、僕はマディソンが全部同じ枝に飾り付けしたオーナメントを他の所に付け直しました！

The finished product...
出来上がり...

Oh yeah...we also made Ellie get into the Holiday Spirit early as well...
エリーもちゃっかりクリスマス気分...

The first week of December, or so, we will get our real tree for the bay window in the kitchen...but only Mommy gets to decorate that one :-)
１２月の最初の週末に切り立てのクリスマスツリーを買って来て、台所にある大きな出窓にとっても綺麗なクリスマスツリー２本目を飾る予定です。(でも飾り付けするのはアンナだけらしい：）

Now to Thanksgiving Weekend...

それではサンクスギビング週末の出来事を話しましょう...

Thursday

木曜日

Our first official turkey packed with butter and ready for the oven...

僕達が初めて挑戦した七面鳥はバターたっぷりでオーブンへ...

But you can't forget the fresh herbs...I read on howtocookathanksgivingturkey.com that you should do 475 degrees for 20 minutes and then lower to 250 for 20 minutes per pound...since ours was a 12 pounder that meant waiting a grueling four hours...
その前に、マディソン園で栽培しているハーブを七面鳥の中に入れて、４時間もおいしく焼けてくれるのを願いながら待ちます...

Madison passed the time by painting...
マディソンは絵の具で名作品を塗り中です...

And four and a half hours later we had this...
約４時間半後、焼き上がり...

Madison was excited...
こんがり焼けた七面鳥と一緒にパシャ！

Our Thanksgiving spread...not bad for just the three of us...decorations were compliments of Madison
サンクスギビングの料理の出来上がりです...壁に飾ってあるのはマディソンが学校で作った帽子と飾り：）

Funny story...we had read in everything to make sure and remove the giblets before cooking...we searched and searched the butt for the giblets and decided because this was a frozen, pre-brined turkey from Trader Joes, they must have removed the giblets for us...so we cooked it and then when Anna was carving the leftovers, we found the plastic bag in the front of the turkey...is that normal? We don't know...

こっちで鳥を丸ごと料理する時には中に入っている肝臓などが入った袋を取り出さないといけないんだけど、それを見つけられないままあれー入ってないじゃんとそのまま調理。ご飯の片付けをしている時に、取り抜くはずだった袋を発見！やっぱり、入ってたんだー、ハハ！

After Thanksgiving, of course we head straight for decorating the outside of the house!!
サンクスギビングの食事の後、早速家の外の飾り付けを開始です!!

My first trip to the roof...it is quite slanted...
初めて屋根の上に上りました...

And my first trip in the tree...pretty easy to climb...
そして、初めてこの松の木に登りました...

We had seen this ornament look on other houses previously and always knew if we had a tree that worked we would go for it...well it definitely works...
どこかで見て気に入った木の飾り付けに挑戦しました...　成功です！

Anna also hot glued ornaments to some garland we got last year on sale...it turned out great...
アンナがオーナメントをくっ付けたガーランドも綺麗に出来上がり...

Our one new purchase for this year's display were these Santa Boots...

The finished display...

Friday

We fit in some Black Friday shopping at 8am and did okay...I actually tried to go at 10pm, but Wal-Mart was ridiculous, so I turned around...then I woke up at 1:30am and thought Target might be fun, but when I went to leave the fog was so thick you couldn't see an inch in front of you so I went back to bed...after shopping we hit Disneyland since we were in the area...it was crowded, but we rode the Monorail in and went to the Holiday area with the crafts, reindeer games and character greetings and it wasn't busy at all...Madison got to make her mask and even dance with Minnie Mouse...

Madison playing her Reindeer Games...

Saturday

Off to feed the ducks... We kept needing to postpone the trip due to our busy schedules and weather so we had filled up 3 bags with bread scraps and ends by then...:-)